Joel 1:18 meaning and explanation

How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Joel 1:18, Berean Standard Bible

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Joel has just described a locust plague so complete that it stripped every field and orchard in Judah (verses 4 and 7). Here the prophet widens the picture beyond crops to livestock: cattle groan, herds wander with nothing to graze, and even the sheep suffer.

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